Los Angeles Quality And Productivity Commission

A team of city, county and private agencies created with the goal of improving living conditions on Delano Street in Van Nuys has received one of 18 annual awards from the Los Angeles Quality and Productivity Commission for its efforts.

A team of city, county and private agencies created with the goal of improving living conditions on Delano Street in Van Nuys has received one of 18 annual awards from the Los Angeles Quality and Productivity Commission for its efforts.

Sara C. Stivelman, 74, former president of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Commission. A Los Angeles native who graduated summa cum laude in political science from UC Berkeley, Stivelman worked as a government and utility liaison resolving problems for businesses and developers. For 13 years, she was vice chairwoman of Los Angeles County's Quality and Productivity Commission.

During the next 12 months, eight local arts organizations will be able to expand the scope of already scheduled appearances by visiting international artists with the aid of new grants from the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. Arts groups were invited to apply for the grants earlier this year through the commission's new Inter/Arts program.

A Chatsworth resident was named by Supervisor Mike Antonovich to the Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission. Viggo Butler, a member of the Pepperdine University board and the Federal Aviation Administration Research and Development Committee, was officially appointed to a three-year commission term at the Board of Supervisors' meeting Monday.

Arthur W. Gutenberg, management consultant and business educator at USC who helped members of minorities, including Pakistani students, work into the mainstream economy, has died. He was 80. Gutenberg, who taught management and organization at the USC Marshall School of Business for 25 years, died Saturday in Pasadena of congestive heart failure, a USC spokesman said.

She didn't have a name. She was only about 3 months old, after all. But as the first baby chimpanzee born at the Los Angeles Zoo in 13 years, she had already earned a spot in the hearts of many staffers and visitors. L.A. Zoo officials spent Wednesday investigating the death of the baby chimpanzee who they say was killed by an adult male chimp in front of dozens of zoo visitors in her habitat the day before. As officials tried to figure out what went wrong, the baby chimp's mother, Gracie, spent the night with the body of her child to grieve.